{"id":386,"date":"2020-12-03T19:50:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/?page_id=386"},"modified":"2020-12-07T22:13:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:13:59","slug":"tumor-news-fall-winter-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumor News Fall\/Winter 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Editors:<\/strong> Michael Ivan, MD, MBS, FAANS | Garni Barkhoudarian, MD, FAANS<\/p>\n\n<!-- Page-list plugin v.5.9 wordpress.org\/plugins\/page-list\/ -->\n<div class=\"page-list page-list-ext \">\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/from-the-chair\/\" title=\"From the Chair\">From the Chair<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Dear Colleagues,\r\n\r\nThe past year has been filled with accomplishments for the section. Manish Aghi, MD, PhD, FAANS, finished his term as section chair. Under his leadership, the section has expanded its membership and broadened its financial support....<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/neuro-oncology-during-covid-an-nyc-perspective\/\" title=\"Neuro-oncology during COVID: An NYC Perspective\">Neuro-oncology during COVID: An NYC Perspective<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">I had not realized how unique the situation was in New York until I was on a panel discussing the possibility of performing endonasal surgery on a patient with COVID. It was sometime around mid-April and several papers had been published from prominent...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/neuro-oncology-during-covid-19-a-west-coast-perspective\/\" title=\"Neuro-oncology during COVID-19: A West Coast Perspective\">Neuro-oncology during COVID-19: A West Coast Perspective<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on our national health care system. During the early part of the pandemic, elective surgical procedures were particularly affected, with the threat that should hospitalizations rise in the future in certain...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/spotlight-on-education-neuro-oncology-webinars\/\" title=\"Spotlight on Education: Neuro-oncology Webinars\">Spotlight on Education: Neuro-oncology Webinars<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">At the last Tumor Section meeting at both the AANS and CNS, it was unthinkable that having a meal or drink with a group of colleagues would be a far more complex endeavor in 2020. As a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, in-person conferences worldwide...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/new-tumor-section-awards-and-grants\/\" title=\"New Tumor Section Awards and Grants\">New Tumor Section Awards and Grants<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n The Tumor Section Awards Committee is happy to report the addition of 14 new awards (summarized below) to be given at the AANS Annual Scientific Meeting and CNS Annual Meeting. In addition, two high-scoring NREF research proposals were...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/cns-sno-virtual-brain-tumor-board\/\" title=\"CNS\/SNO Virtual Brain Tumor Board\">CNS\/SNO Virtual Brain Tumor Board<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">The Society of NeuroOncology and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, in collaboration with the Tumor Section and the Neurosurgical Atlas , have produced a Virtual Brain Tumor Board conference series. This multidisciplinary conference, involving neurosurgeons,...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/journal-of-neuro-oncology\/\" title=\"Journal of Neuro-Oncology\">Journal of Neuro-Oncology<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">The Journal of Neuro-Oncology  (JNO) is the official journal of the AANS\/CNS Tumor Section. Several other prominent organizations also help to sponsor the journal. These include the Radiosurgery Society (RSS), the Indian Society of Neuro-Oncology (ISNO),...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/2020-international-observership-program-thrives-as-educational-and-bridge-building-initiative\/\" title=\"2020 International Observership Program Thrives as Educational and Bridge-building Initiative\">2020 International Observership Program Thrives as Educational and Bridge-building Initiative<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Franco Rubino, MD,  of Tucum\u00e1n, Argentina, spent three unique months at the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Miami, observing with Ricardo Komotar, MD, FAANS, FACS, CNS Foundation Board member and director of the UM Residency Program and director ...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/meeting-updates\/\" title=\"Meeting Updates\">Meeting Updates<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Satellite Symposium Update 2020\/2021 Michael Vogelbaum, MD, PhD, FAANS | Ian Dunn, MD, FAANS | Jason Sheehan, MD, PhD, FAANS The Joint Section on Tumors' much anticipated 15th Biennial Tumor Section Satellite Symposium  has been rescheduled for October...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/clinical-trials-abtc\/\" title=\"Clinical Trials \u2013 ABTC\">Clinical Trials \u2013 ABTC<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Clinical Trial Highlight: 10\/4\/2020 ABTC 1603: Phase I Study of Neoadjuvant GMCI + PD-1 Inhibitor Combined with Standard of Care for Newly Diagnosed High-Grade Gliomas   Principal Investigator: Nino Chiocca, MD, PhD, FAANS The hypothesis of this study...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/membership-social-media-update\/\" title=\"Membership &amp; Social Media Update\">Membership &amp; Social Media Update<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">Membership The lifeblood of the Tumor Section is its members. Across all paying membership categories, as of September 29, we have seen a drop in member numbers. Active membership currently stands at 574 members, as opposed to 636 in 2019. This may be...<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"page-list-ext-item\"><h3 class=\"page-list-ext-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.aans.org\/tumor\/tumor-news-fall-winter-2020\/young-neurosurgeons-committee\/\" title=\"Young Neurosurgeon\u2019s Committee\">Young Neurosurgeon\u2019s Committee<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"page-list-ext-item-content\">As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit in-person gatherings and conferences worldwide, national and international neurosurgical societies have adapted to a changing academic environment by embracing web-based educational, promotional and social communities....<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editors: Michael Ivan, MD, MBS, FAANS | Garni Barkhoudarian, MD, FAANS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"NewsletterTOC.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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